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27 Jul 2010

Preventing disruptive boys from becoming heavy substance users during adolescence

A Canadian piece of research looking at targeted prevention with disruptive boys.  The researchers followed over 1,000 boys from the age of 6 until they were 15.  They found:

that parental monitoring and friends’ conventionality mitigated the relationship between childhood disruptiveness and adolescence heavy substance use. Exposure to conventional friends further mediated the protective effect of parent monitoring.

Read the abstract here.

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